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If you have eating restrictions, you’ll likely see more recurrences. My colleague Kat Merk, who tested GLP-1-friendly meals — and also reported a preference not to eat fish — found herself drowning in a sea of chicken after eating the six meals she tried. She found the portions to be appropriate for those taking GLP-1 medications, and appreciated that the meals provided her with the proteins she needed to maintain muscle mass even when she was not chemically hungry.
But still: chicken. After eating five of her six meals, she wrote: “I don’t think I’ve ever had a meal that I didn’t like in the end, but it was quite repetitive. Chicken chicken chicken chicken.”
My sixth meal, cream of mushroom chicken, was the only failure. I noticed that the chicken tasted different from chicken in other dishes any of us had tried: thick, dry, and covered in sticky cream with no sign of the advertised mushrooms. It was a bit sad, a reminder of a previous TV dinner.
But if anything, that failed meal highlights how surprisingly well most proteins are managed. Merck and I were also happy to see the occasional chicken leg, and not just the breast, in our meals. For the record, the thigh was better: the thigh is almost always better.
Tempo meals can be a little sedate. And none of it was exactly exciting. But it was easy, nutritious, balanced, and convenient, without relying on a pile of sodium and unhealthy carbs to be palatable. This meant I felt comfortable and grateful to have it in my fridge, while I was working from home and had little time to think about lunch. For many, that feeling is worth $12 a meal.
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